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Woman Alive! show opener - fast flashing photos of women from every walk of life, age, race, and style. Woman Alive! graphic.

Shots of couple, Pat and Charles Sackrey, working together building their own cabin in a wooded area. Hammering pieces of wood for the roof, using a plane for accuracy. With narration about their relationship by Charles and Pat

Charles, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, in his kitchen cooking a meal in large pots. Girl in rocking chair engrossed in reading a book. Teenage son comes home . Pat following son, arriving home after work, they kiss. Family scene, with a role reversal.

Charles standing on a ladder working on the exterior of his home.

The Sackleys sitting casually outdoors, on the ground in the woods, they discuss issues within their relationship.

Pan out from unfinished wood frame of cabin in the woods, figure standing nearby.

Charles, now sitting up and expressing that he's worn down by the level of intensity of the battles in their marriage and sounding as if he is giving up. Pat responding to Charles expresses that she is not threatened and that they talk so much its time they act or let it all alone for awhile.

Huge ball of bright yellow sunshine with the overlay "Melissa Manchester"

Next segment begins - Des Moines, Iowa

A young African American woman in the same group expresses that she experiences more opposition because of being a woman than she does as being a Black woman. Other women in the group talk about their similar experiences being a woman in the work force.

Actress Comedian, Lily Tomlin, performing a satirical spoof. Playing a psychologist, she sits and reads several letters from the case of "a distraught husband" who has been writing her for over a month about how his wife has rebelled from all her families demands by shooting pop tarts at the family among other stunts she has pulled. Quite funny and satirical...

INTERVIEW WITH GLORIA STEINEM SPEAKING WITH UNSEEN INTERVIEWER

Gloria Steinem
I think in early childhood, I mean, it's a really little girl, I had the idea that I could be something, even if it was a pretty conventional thing. And then the adolescent period came along and just the role, the whole female role just came down like a vise. And then I began to think that I couldn't be anything, even a conventional thing I had to marry it. And the whole, you know, feeling that you had to find somebody who wanted to do what you also wanted to do in life and attach yourself to that person was really very, very strong. I just thought that on the side, I would do this other little things. I mean, maybe I would, you know, have an interesting job on the side. But it was still very definitely on the side. And it makes it impossible really to find anyone whom you want to share your life with. If you think that your his limitations are going to be totally yours that after that you're you're never going to have a choice. Somebody Elektra once asked me if why it was that women didn't gamble as much as men. And I gave the usual answer, you know, which is that? Well, we don't have enough money, you know, we just don't feel we can risk the money. And afterwards, it occurred to me that the reason we don't gamble cards and poker as much as because our total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. I mean, what could be a bigger gamble, this this problem of being of your total identity, coming from a man, whether the man is your husband, or your father or the person you work for as assistant or CO or advice or whatever it is, Are you the Secretary to that in the movement in the women's movement is known as being male identified, looking for approval for men, for men, total definition for men. But I think you have to talk about being a man junkie, to really get the sense of the strength of it and to understand it as an addiction, which it really is, I mean, you need a kind of shot of identity to to prove that you're really a person, you're just nobody, unless you have a man standing next to you. Whether it's your boss or your husband or a date on Saturday night, and men don't understand how little it matters which man is standing next to you. It's, you know, it's just you're not a complete person. Without that, man, it took me a very long time. I mean, I wasted many, many years. Working Yes, supporting myself, Yes, but doing research for man I knew who were writers giving my ideas and meetings to men because it wouldn't be more acceptable if they suggested it, entertaining their friends living their lives, even if they didn't encourage me to, I mean, I would do it all by myself, even if the men weren't quite able to accept, you know, as a strong woman, I still felt that that was the way I had to behave. I think I had the same problem that a lot of women do. And that is that because society had told me that my group was second class or supportive, at best, I kind of believed. And if I got a little bit up in the world, I didn't want to associate with members of my own group. That kind of dislike of oneself and of one's own group, is something that the women's movement has helped to cure. And it's very joyful. Now to see women making a connection with other women, because at last, we respect ourselves.

A group of woman gathered together discussing the first Conference of the National Black Feminist Organization that had taken place recently. Included in this group are Gloria Steinem, Jane Calvin Lewis and Margaret Sloan (of the Nat'l Black Feminist Organization). They discuss aspects of the Conference.

CU on a bi-racial woman referring to a recent study that shows the blue collar women who had traditionally been one of the most stable, unchanging forces in society has emerged now as a new political economic and social force interested in changing the world a bit.

Next segment begins - Crystal Lee Jordan, Roanoke Rapids, NC

POV moving vehicle passing small rural homes, J.P. Stevens Water Tower., glass front doors to J.P. Stevens & Co. In. Roanoke Fabricating company.

Crystal Lee Jordan inside being interviewed by unseen interviewer talking about the difficulties of getting the workers to join the union and how she was looked down upon by alot of the other women workers. She talks about getting fired.

Crystals's husband and Crystal sitting talking with unseen interviewer. Mr. Crystal stating he's proud of Crystal who is not afraid of the company and continues to fight, and he talks about how JP Stevens has put fear in the workers. Crystal states that the people are not afraid of the union they're afraid of JP Stevens who owns six plants in Roanoke Rapids. Boards at the banks include members from JP and this has put a fear in the people who are afraid the plants will be shut down.

Var workers including Crystal talking amongst each other about getting other people, their spouses, to sign the union cards.

Ext. Young little girl cheerleaders outdoors doing a special "we got a union" cheer. WS from across street of the group of cheerleaders out in front of. brick building in town, jumping, and cheering,.

Crystal Lee being interviewed by unseen interviewer continuing discussion about how people thought she was crazy trying to organize, but she hopes to influence the other people about how strongly she believes in the union and wants the man who fired to know they will not get her.

Credits roll over Manchester's performance.